When Dr Ben Goldacre recently voiced concerns in the British Medical Journal about drug companies ‘engineering’ drug trials, resulting in what he called “bad evidence, which distorts medical decision-making, and harms patients”, we only have to look at the Champix fiasco to see how true that is. But that is not the only type [...]
Filed under: Champix/Chantix, Drugs on Trial, Publicity, The Campaign by Chris
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The weird and wonderful internet just threw up another amusing splinter of craziness in the form of an email message, sent through the Truth Will Out Contact Form facility, from a website called ChampixMagic. It purported to be from a person called Jay, and it said:
Jay wrote:
Dear sir/webmaster,
I am the responsible person for link [...]
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President Barack Obama said today: “Where there is inefficiency, where there is corruption, we expect those people to be held accountable.”
That is a fine democratic principle. Well said, Mr President. Of course he was talking about the government of Afghanistan, warning those people that they could not expect continued support from Western governments if they [...]
Filed under: Drugs on Trial, Nicotine, The Campaign by Chris
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In response to the post Champix Kills, But Don’t Tell The Smokers a comment came in from James which raised a number of important points, so I have decided to reproduce it here, along with my response to the points he raised:
JAMES on October 27th, 2009 at 7:11 am Said:
I am in two minds regarding [...]
Filed under: Champix/Chantix, Drugs on Trial, Hypnotherapy, Smoking, The Campaign by Chris
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Twice before I have mentioned the scandal of people of a certain age who are more frail and confused than they used to be being knocked senseless by GPs with the use of powerful anti-psychotic drugs, and now this scandal is back in the news again.
Deliberate Mis-Prescribing
No-one is suggesting that the job of a GP [...]
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Since the launch of this site in March 2008 I have been urging medical authorities to do something about the madness of ‘internet pharmacies’ from which people can buy prescription medications without any doctors or prescriptions being involved. Occasionally I had heard people like Dr Chris Steele ( a TV Doctor here in the U.K.) [...]
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Scientists - you know, those people with white labcoats and glasses who tirelessly Mine The Seam Of Truth for all mankind – have been getting very excited about the role of Money in the development of new Wonder Drugs.
Useful Definitions:
‘Wonder Drug’
A Wonder Drug is a drug which has just been launched, so it has yet [...]
Filed under: Champix/Chantix, Drugs on Trial, Hypnotherapy by Chris
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It’s not just doctors that are failing to warn smokers about the more deadly serious side-effects of Champix Chantix. The so-called “public health charity” Action on Smoking and Health (A.S.H.) have conspicuously failed to update their advice to smokers and health professionals in the light of all the horror-stories over the past eighteen months, choosing [...]
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The Real Threat to Doctors, Pharmacists and the Medical Profession
To learn the truth about Chantix Champix, all you have to do is Google “Champix suicides” (or Chantix suicides) and read all about it for yourself.
But why should smokers have to do that? Most smokers assume that their doctor or their pharmacist would warn them [...]
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Spurious New ‘Uses’ for Nicotine
Not so long ago this site was blasted in a blog written by one of the passionate converts to the new Electronic Cigarette. He took exception to my statement that nicotine is “just a poison”, and that it has no therapeutic use or any recreational use (there is no high), so [...]
Filed under: Drugs on Trial, Nicotine by Chris
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